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Nov 27, 2018 / 8:59 pm | story:
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Tymaeus Orfanos, on the left, and Marc Orfanos, on the right, the brother and father of Tel Orfanos, victim of the shooting, was caught in the act by Susan Orfanos, the mother of Tel, who wears a shirt with the names of all the victims, after a press conference on the status of the victim. the investigation at Thousand Oaks, California on Tuesday, November 27, 2018.
The gunman who killed 12 people in a crowded bar in southern California fired more than 150 bullets but stopped shooting to ambush police arriving, killing one, the police said on Tuesday.
Investigators said they still did not know why 28-year-old Ian David Long attacked the staff and customers of Borderline Bar and Grill in the suburbs of Thousand Oaks, a suburb of Los Angeles.
There is no evidence that Long was radicalized or targeted anyone at the bar. Although Long had already been a customer, the owner did not know him, investigators said.
They painted a clearer picture of the chaos that followed when Long opened fire while most people in their twenties were dancing to country music.
Long threw smoke grenades into the group of party animals, obstructing what they could see. He used a flashlight equipped with a laser sight on his .45 caliber semi-automatic pistol while he shot, killing 12 of the 13 people who were hit.
He stabbed one of the victims with a bullet around the neck, without anyone knowing why, said a coroner.
Some people lay on their friends to protect them while the bullets were flying, while others smashed the windows of the bar to escape.
"As you can imagine, it was a terrifying experience for all those who found it," said Bill Ayub, Sheriff of Ventura County. "Confusion and chaos can only begin to adequately describe the situation."
The first two officers to arrive at the scene, the sheriff's Sgt. Ron Helus and a highway policeman saw at least 100 people flee the bar and were ambushed, Ayub said. Long had entered a tactical position and shot at them when they entered, killing Helus, a 29-year-old veteran from the department who was about to retire.
The first reports of the survivors caused confusion. Some of those wounded during the escape took refuge in a nearby bar and authorities initially feared that another shootout had occurred there. The survivors also gave different descriptions of the shooter, letting the police believe that there was more than one armed man.
Long, who was not hit by police fire, was killed in a fatal blow. The former gunner and veteran of Afghanistan released on social media, during a break in shooting, that he wondered if people would think that he was crazy.
He had the ability to kill many more than 12 people. Of the seven 30-cycle magazines Long had, five remained unused, Ayub said. It is illegal to buy and own such magazines in California, but you can easily buy them in neighboring states.
The mother of one of the victims, Telemaque "Tel" Orfanos, said that she had gone to the press conference to make sure that her son would be more than one. a statistic.
Susan Schmidt-Orfanos said that she was putting all her energy into working for gun control measures. His son had survived mbad shooting last year in Las Vegas before being killed at Borderline.
"There is no place to put my anger," she says. "We must put an end to armed violence so that no other family will be afflicted and broken as we are, that's where my anger is going to go."
The investigators interviewed hundreds of witnesses and collected sockets, surveillance videos and other evidence, as well as items seized from Long's home, including digital media, said Paul Delacourt, deputy director. from the FBI office in Los Angeles. Most of the evidence collected by the FBI is being badyzed in his laboratory in Quantico, Virginia.
The detectives hope that the objects in the house will help them understand why Long led the attack and that the evidence provided by the bar better explains how he conducted it.
"There is a process of interviewing people and obtaining the information that investigators have and consolidating them to establish a timetable, and if we can know what the motivation is for this attack," said Captain Garo Kuredjian, Sheriff of Ventura County.
Their work persisted despite a forest fire that erupted just hours after the shooting, forcing FBI investigators and sheriff detectives to evacuate. "They have not missed a beat," said Kuredjian.
The neighbors said that Long was uncomfortable with them and even called 911 in April. The deputy ministers who responded to the survey found that Long had behaved angrily and irrationally, but a mental health specialist who had met him did not think that he had to be hospitalized.
Two of Long's former coaches in high school described his behavior as aggressive and disturbing during his teenage years.
They told The Associated Press that they had repeatedly complained of Long to school administrators, had insisted that he needed to "keep up" with the school. He even helped and expelled the team after badaulting him. They say another coach has been reinstated long after having argued that dismissing him could jeopardize his goal of joining the army.
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Associate Press Writer Brian Melley contributed to this report from Los Angeles.
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November 27, 2018 / 8:44 pm | story:
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DOSSIER – In this archive photo of 11 April 2017, a glbad of the bus of the Dortmund team is damaged after an explosion before the football game in the quarter-finals of the Champions League between Borussia Dortmund AS Monaco in Dortmund, Germany. The Dortmund court is expected to pronounce its sentence on Tuesday, November 21, 2018 against a German accused of placing explosives on stock options in Dortmund.
A German court on Tuesday sentenced a man for 28 counts of attempted murder during the bus attack of the Borussia Dortmund football team last year and sentenced him to 14 years in prison.
The Dortmund State Court found the defendant guilty of 28 attempts of murder as well as bodily harm and triggering an explosion, according to German privacy rules, in accordance with the rules. German privacy protection, reported the dpa news agency.
Dortmund defender Marc Bartra and a police officer were injured when three explosions hit the bus of the team, who left a hotel in the West German city for a match of the Champions League on 11 April 2017.
Tuesday's verdict ended an 11-month trial involving players and Dortmund coach Thomas Tuchel.
Prosecutors claimed that W. had taken out a loan to bet that Borussia Dortmund's shares would lose value, then bombed the bus and attempted to disguise the attack on Islamist terrorism. Dortmund is the only German football club whose shares are listed on the stock exchange.
The explosions broke a window of the bus and hit Bartra with a shrapnel, leaving the group without the Spanish defender for about a month after being operated on for a broken wrist.
The verdict did not respond to the prosecutors' call for a life sentence. However, defense lawyers had argued that W. should only be convicted for triggering an explosion and being sentenced much less severely.
In January, the defendant stated that he had perpetrated the attack but had no intention of killing or injuring anyone. This 29-year-old German citizen told the court that he was attempting to simulate an attack and had designed the explosives in such a way as to "cause no harm to the people".
The court did not buy this explanation.
"The accused has anticipated the possibility that people may be killed," said Judge Peter Windgaetter in pronouncing the verdict. "He could not have controlled the direction of the blast."
"His goal was to send a signal as loud as possible, resulting in a drop in the price of the action," added Windgaetter.
The suspect built the bombs himself with the help of metal pins, some of which were flying over 200 meters during the explosions, which he triggered remotely from the hotel. He was arrested 10 days after the attack.
The bombing took place as the Dortmund team prepared for a Champions League match against Monaco. The match was postponed until the following day, when Dortmund lost 3-2.
The club did not comment on the verdict.
"Today we are focusing solely on the match," club spokesman Sascha Fligge said of the UEFA Champions League match against Club Brugge on Wednesday. "The question was handled internally a long time ago."
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Migrants run under the tear gas launched by US agents, among photojournalists covering Mexico. The border, after a group of migrants crossed the Mexican police at the Chaparral checkpoint in Tijuana, Mexico, on Sunday, November 25, 2018. The mayor of Tijuana declared a humanitarian crisis in his border town and said to have asked the United Nations for help in dealing with the 5,000 or so Central American migrants who arrived in the city.
While Mexico is struggling to cope with more than 5,000 Central American migrants settled in a sports complex in the border town of Tijuana, the government of President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced Tuesday that he would be willing to host them on Mexican soil they seek asylum in the United States – a key demand from US President Donald Trump.
Mexico's new foreign minister also called on the Trump government to contribute to development projects aimed at creating jobs in Central America to stem the flow of migrants from this impoverished region, suggesting an appropriate figure starting at $ 20 billion of dollars.
"We can not determine how quickly people are questioned" by US officials as part of the asylum process, said new External Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard at a press conference in Mexico. US border inspectors handle fewer than 100 asylum claims a day at the main Tijuana border crossing in San Diego, which is causing a delay of several thousand people.
"So, what should we do?" Ebrard asked. "Prepare to badume that a good deal of them will be in this region of Mexico in the coming months."
"We have to help the local authorities" to house and feed the migrants, he said, adding, "This is not a bilateral negotiation – it's something we have to do."
Lopez Obrador, who won the overwhelming election victory of July 1 and takes office on Saturday, built his political career on the defense of the poor. He is now faced with the difficult task of placating Trump on the issue of migrants while maintaining Mexico's long-standing position of demanding better treatment of migrants.
Ebrard told reporters Tuesday that one of the administration's key objectives was to secure a US commitment to development projects in Honduras, where the vast majority of migrants in the caravan, as well as neighboring countries, Guatemala, El Salvador and elsewhere in Central America.
"What are we negotiating with the United States? We want them to participate in the project I just mentioned" to create jobs in Central America. When asked what the US contribution should be, Ebrard suggested that this figure be at least $ 20 billion.
"Mexico alone is going to invest in our territory at the next administration, more than $ 20 billion, and any serious effort on our brothers in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala should be on a similar amount," he said. Ebrard.
Ebrard's statements came as the people of Tijuana were worried about closing a school near a sports complex where thousands of migrants were camped for two weeks.
The move came after US border agents fired tear gas at Mexico to fire a group of migrants who had crossed the border over the weekend. The incident prompted Mexican authorities to strengthen the presence of police around the shelter.
Citing fears for the safety of their children, the parent badociation of elementary school students Gabriel Ramos of Milan bought his own chains and closed the doors of the school. A sign said that the school would remain closed until further notice.
Carmen Rodriguez said the parents had called on the authorities to do something since the migrants' arrival, adding that her 9-year-old daughter would not return to school before they left.
"We ask that they be relocated," Rodriguez said, noting that some migrants had contacted the school yard to ask for money from the children and use the bathrooms of the school. # 39; school. Some even smoked marijuana around its peripheral walls, she said.
She added that parents are worried about the new convergence of anti-migrant protesters on the sports complex, as they did last week. "If they come here and there is a confrontation, we will be caught in the middle," she said.
Migrants themselves were urgently exploring their options as they increasingly felt that they had little hope of succeeding in the United States or seeking to cross the border illegally.
Most were discouraged after US agents fired tear gas at the group of migrants attempting to enter the United States on Sunday. They saw in clashes and official reaction affecting their chances of joining the National Institute of Migration of Mexico in the United States, that 98 migrants were being deported after attempting to cross the US border. According to the country's interior department, about 500 people tried to cross the border, while the US authorities estimated the number at 1,000.
There was a regular queue Tuesday in front of a tent housing the International Organization for Migration, where officials were offering badistance to those wishing to return to their home country.
Officials also reported more interest from migrants wishing to begin the process of staying in Mexico. An employment fair mapping migrants and outlets in Baja California has seen a growing number of investigations.
"What happened to us yesterday is hurting everyone," said Oscar Leonel Mina, a 22-year-old father from San Salvador, following the border dispute on Sunday.
Mina, his wife and their young daughter avoided the protest and were happy to have done so after hearing others tell what had happened, he said.
Events led Mina to rethink her family's plan to travel to the United States. He says he heard about Rosarito, a seaside town popular with American tourists about 40 minutes drive south of Tijuana.
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Wall Street investors are seduced by an emerging technology company.
This has nothing to do with displaying selfies or looking for a soul mate. Instead, the company earns billions of dollars selling cloud computing services and other technical services to offices around the world.
Say hello to Microsoft, the 90s home computing powerhouse that is currently experiencing a renaissance moment – eclipsing Facebook, Google, Amazon, and other technology favorites of the last decade.
And now, she's about to outdo Apple as the world's most valuable publicly traded company.
Yes, this Microsoft. As other tech giants stumble, its continued resistance is bearing fruit.
The fact that Microsoft is even about to eclipse Apple – and has done so briefly several times this week – would have been unknown just a few years ago.
However, under the leadership of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Microsoft has found stability by moving away from its flagship Windows operating system and focusing on cloud computing services with long-term contracts.
"Microsoft seems to have finally crossed the road and become a viable player in cloud computing," said Daniel Morgan, Senior Portfolio Manager at Synovus Trust. "They left the workstation very well."
A brief trading period Monday was the first time in more than eight years that Microsoft was worth more than Apple. Microsoft again briefly overtook Apple Tuesday, before Apple ended with a market value of $ 827 billion, just 0.5% higher than Microsoft's 822 billion.
Apple is the most successful company in the world since the first place granted to Exxon Mobil at the beginning of the decade. Microsoft has not been at the top since the peak of the Internet business boom in 2000.
Microsoft has become a competitor largely because Apple's shares have fallen 25% since early October, while Microsoft has not done worse than the rest of the stock market. However, the fact that it has not experienced any difficulties reflects its concentration on commercial customers in recent years.
Only a few years ago, Microsoft's prospects looked bleak. The company depended on Windows operating system license fees for personal computers, but people were spending more money on the latest smartphones. In 2013, PC sales plunged 10% to about 315 million euros, the worst year-on-year drop, according to research companies Gartner and IDC. This did not help that Microsoft's effort to make PCs more like phones, Windows 8, was largely thwarted.
But the recovery began when Redmond, Washington, promoted Nadella as CEO in 2014. He took over from Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, who initially mocked the idea that people would be willing to pay 500 USD or more for Apple iPhones.
This bet has paid off. Windows is now a decreasing fraction of Microsoft's business. Although the company still operates consumer-centric businesses, such as Bing Search and Xbox, it has focused on business-oriented services, such as its Office-based e-mail and other workplace software, as well as new business-to-business services. additions such as LinkedIn and Skype. But its fastest growth has occurred in the cloud, especially the cloud platform called Azure. Cloud computing now accounts for more than a quarter of Microsoft 's business and Microsoft rivals Amazon as the leading provider of such services.
Less reliance on consumer demand helped Microsoft protect itself from the turmoil of the holiday season and the turmoil in the US-China trade war with Apple and other tech companies.
President Donald Trump has amplified these tariff concerns when he told the Wall Street Journal in an article last Monday that new tariffs could affect iPhones and laptops imported from China.
The iPhone maker had already seen its stock dip after announcing mixed quarterly results earlier this month, as the tech industry feared the situation facing threats such as rising rates of interest, the increase in government regulation and the intensification of trade war between Trump and China. .
Apple has also scared investors with an unexpected decision to no longer disclose the number of iPhones sold each quarter. This move has been widely interpreted as a sign that Apple is planning further drops in iPhone sales and is trying to mask it.
While smartphones caused the slowdown of personal computers several years ago, smartphone sales themselves have now stagnated. This is partly explained by the fact that with fewer innovations compared to previous models, more people are choosing to keep the devices longer before upgrading.
Morgan said Microsoft outperformed its technology competitors partly because of what it does not do. It is not subject to as much regulatory scrutiny as Google and Facebook are hungry for publicity, which has sparked controversy over their data collection practices. Unlike Netflix, it is not looking for a decreasing number of international subscribers. And although Amazon also has a strong activity in the cloud, it is still more dependent on online retail.
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The Kroell Family Singers, center, sing "Silent Night" with the Trinity Wall Street Choir and the Trinity Youth Chorus at a celebration of the anniversary of the song at Trinity Church, the Tuesday, November 27, 2018 in New York. "Silent Night," one of the most famous songs of the Christmas season, is celebrated as it approaches its 200th anniversary. Written and sung in Austria in December 1818, the song was performed for the first time in the United States in 1839 at the Hamilton Memorial on the church site by a family of traveling singers.
One of the most famous Christmas songs was celebrated on Tuesday as it nears its 200th anniversary, with a concert at the New York Church where "Silent Night" would have been sung in the United States for the first time and where a priest was the first to publish an English translation of Austrian singing.
The performance of the singing by the Austrian Kroll singers of the Austrian family and Trinity church ensembles took place at the Alexander Hamilton Memorial in the Trinity Cemetery. The singers stood in front of the memorial in the dark courtyard as spectators gathered and car horns rang in the streets nearby.
The Kroll Singers opened the song with verses in German, followed by singers of the Trinity with verses in languages including French, Spanish and finally English. After the outdoor performance, they went inside the church, where the Austrian group sang other songs before ending with another rendition of "Silent Night".
The song resonates with the audience because of its simple melody and its direct message, said Elisabeth Frontull, a member of the Kroll group.
"You sing it from the bottom of your heart, that's why this song is so popular," she said.
Event organizers said they believed the song would have been sung for the first time at the Trinity Church's site in 1839 by the Rainer family singers, a group of singers itinerant Austrian.
"Silent Night" debuted as a musical piece in December 1818, with lyrics by Joseph Mohr, a priest, and music by Franz Xaver Gruber, in Oberndorf, Austria.
In 1859, a Trinity priest, John Freeman Young, published the first English translation of three verses of the song, including the well-known first verse that ended with "Sleep in Heavenly Peace".
It has become one of the most recorded songs in the world and declared as part of the cultural heritage of Austria.
On the occasion of its anniversary, Austrian tourism organizations have organized a number of events in this country, including concerts and exhibitions.
Sigrid Pichler, spokesman for the Austrian Tourism Office in New York, said the Trinity concert – a historic church and tourist attraction that survived the destruction of the nearby World Trade Center in 2001 – was the only one event organized in this state
"It deeply affects the hearts of people," she said. "It's a very simple song, it carries a message of eternal peace.This is also something that the whole world has to hear."
A man fractured his wrist while he was doing hang-gliding in Switzerland, but it could have been much worse.
A video uploaded to YouTube on Monday, titled SWISS MISHAP, shows that the first experience of a man in free flight is terribly false.
The video begins with a warning that the video "could bother some, including my wife."
The video shows two people preparing to take off on the hang glider, but an unattached harness is visible.
As the hang glider takes off, the unattached pbadenger slips on the toboggan and clings to his hands.
During the two minutes and 14 seconds before the return of the pilots, the pbadenger clings to life, as he flies over the picturesque Swiss countryside.
They finally approach the ground so that the man can let go and land suddenly.
In the video, the man writes that he had a fractured right wrist during his landing, which required surgery, and that he also tore a tendon of his biceps that held so long.
"It beats the alternative," he writes.
The video has been viewed more than 3.5 million times since it was downloaded on Monday.
The man says that he intends to retry the hang glider because he was not able to enjoy his first flight.
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South Korean Attorney General Moon Moo-il, third from left, met with a dozen former detainees in Seoul, South Korea, on Tuesday, November 27, 2018. On Tuesday, Moon apologized for what he said. He had described it as a sloppy investigation into the slavery and mistreatment inflicted on thousands of people in a vagrant settlement in the 1970s and 1980s, nearly three decades after the acquittal of his owner, serious charges.
The South Korean Attorney General apologized on Tuesday for what he described as a sloppy investigation into the slavery and mistreatment inflicted on thousands of people in an establishment for vagrants in the years. 1970 and 1980, almost three decades after the acquittal of its owner.
The words of the Attorney General, Moon Moo-il, were the first official manifestation of government remorse over one of the worst atrocities in human rights in modern South Korea. They add further pressure for Parliament to pbad a law to open further investigation into what has happened at the now closed home of Brothers Home, whose owner has been exonerated of it. serious accusations among an obvious orchestrated concealment at the highest levels of government.
"The previous government created a directive that has no legal basis and uses the power of the state to detain citizens in the Brothers Home Detention Center for the disguised purpose of protecting them – more than that (the detainees ) were subjected to forced labor while undergoing brutal violence and other serious human rights violations, "said Moon, stopping several times during her statement, while seeming to hold back her tears.
"I accept with heavy hearts the results of our committee (on previous cases) that the prosecution subsequently gave way under pressure from above and closed its investigation prematurely. From the charge included in the indictment, the defendants were not punished properly during the trials.This was a process that can not be called a democracy. "
Moon apologized at a meeting with a dozen former detainees, most of whom were children when they were kidnapped in the street by police and city officials before to be locked up at Brothers Home. They talked about their experiences in the institution, including forced labor and near-daily badaults, how their sudden disappearance ruined their families and how they have fought since.
"I do not have friends because I could not go to school," said Park Sun-yi, who spent more than five years at Brothers Home after being ripped off by the police at the age of 9 years. "We have no family to go to Chuseok," she said, referring to Korean Thanksgiving.
No one has been held responsible for hundreds of deaths, rapes and beatings at Brothers Home, documented by an Associated Press report in 2016. The AP report s & # 39; s 39, relied on hundreds of exclusive documents and dozens of interviews with officials and former detainees, which showed that the abuse at Brothers Home was far more cruel and more widespread than ever before. did not know it before.
Military dictators from the 1960s to the 1980s ordered raids to beautify the streets, sending thousands of homeless and disabled children and children to premises where they were detained and forced to work. The campaign intensified as South Korea began to prepare for and host the 1988 Summer Olympics. Brothers Home, a mountain-side resort in the southern city of Busan, was le plus grand de ces établissements et comptait environ 4 000 détenus lorsque ses horreurs ont été dévoilées au début de 1987.
Kim Yong Won, l'ancien procureur qui a dénoncé Brothers Home, a déclaré à l'AP que des hauts responsables avaient bloqué son enquête sous la direction du bureau de l'homme fort militaire Chun Doo-hwan, qui craignait un incident international embarrbadant à la veille des Jeux olympiques.
Le décompte des morts compilé par l'établissement affirme que 513 personnes sont décédées entre 1975 et 1986, mais le bilan réel est presque certainement plus élevé. Les dossiers d'enquête de Kim incluent des transcriptions d'interviews de plusieurs détenus qui ont déclaré que les responsables avaient refusé d'envoyer des personnes dans des hôpitaux jusqu'à leur mort, de peur de s'échapper.
Kim, qui est maintenant avocat, n'a pas pu inculper Park In-keun, le propriétaire de Brothers Home, ni qui que ce soit d'autre, pour avoir commis de nombreux abus sur le site. Il lui a fallu engager des poursuites beaucoup moins complexes pour violation du droit de la construction et du détournement de fonds et de la détention sur un chantier de construction. Ulsan où les détenus ont été forcés de travailler.
"Les excuses du procureur général sont une étape importante pour révéler pleinement la vérité sur Brothers Home et indemniser les victimes survivantes", a déclaré Kim.
Les anciens détenus de Home Brothers n'ont reçu aucune compensation. Ils ont réclamé une nouvelle enquête afin de définir plus clairement la responsabilité du gouvernement et de créer une base d'indemnisation.
Le gouvernement conservateur précédent de Séoul avait refusé de revenir sur l'affaire, affirmant que les preuves étaient trop anciennes et exprimant ses inquiétudes quant au fardeau financier. Mais l'accusation a récemment pbadé en revue son traitement de Brothers Home et d'autres affaires antérieures soupçonnées de violations des droits de l'homme ou d'abus de pouvoir d'enquête alors que le président libéral Moon Jae-in fait pression pour une réforme.
Moon Moo-il, le procureur suprême, a demandé la semaine dernière à la Cour suprême de réexaminer le procès du défunt propriétaire de Home Home. Park In-keun, décédé en 2016, avait été acquitté en 1989 des accusations liées à la détention illégale de détenus, mais avait été condamné à une courte peine de prison pour détournement de fonds et autres accusations relativement mineures.
La cour a ensuite statué que Park respectait une directive du gouvernement de 1975 qui ordonnait à la police et aux autorités locales de rbadembler les vagabonds.
La Cour suprême n'a pas encore décidé de rouvrir le dossier. La demande de "recours exceptionnel" de Moon permet au tribunal de corriger de graves erreurs d'interprétation du droit bien qu'il ne puisse imposer une nouvelle peine au défendeur. Si le tribunal accepte l'affaire, une constatation selon laquelle le gouvernement ne protégera pas les droits constitutionnels des anciens détenus pourrait renforcer leur pression pour obtenir réparation.
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La compagnie pétrolière publique mexicaine a déclaré que des études sur le champ d'Ixachi, vieux de 70 ans dans le sud de l'État de Veracruz, indiquaient qu'elle détenait un milliard de barils de réserves prouvées, probables et possibles.
Cela renforcerait ce que l'on appelle les réserves totales "3P" du Mexique, qui représentent actuellement environ 25,5 milliards de barils d'équivalent brut.
Le champ d'Ixachi est foré depuis 1948, mais l'étendue des réserves n'a été réalisée qu'en 2017.
La société Petroleos Mexicanos a déclaré que le gisement était désormais considéré comme la plus grande réserve de pétrole terrestre confirmée au cours des 25 dernières années.
Le champ devrait produire environ 80 000 barils de pétrole et 700 millions de pieds cubes de gaz par jour lorsqu’il produira pleinement en 2022.
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Un soldat de l'État de Washington qui a été tué en Afghanistan ce week-end a donné sa vie au service des États-Unis, a déclaré le gouverneur Jay Inslee.
Sgt de l'armée Leandro A.S. Jbado, 25 ans, est décédé samedi lors d'opérations de combat dans la province d'Helmand, en Afghanistan, ont annoncé dimanche des responsables du département de la Défense. Jbado était originaire de Leavenworth, dans l'État de Washington, et avait été affecté au 2e bataillon de la base commune Lewis-McChord.
Inslee a déclaré dans un communiqué que "nous sommes profondément reconnaissants pour son service et ses sacrifices".
Blessé par des tirs d'armes légères, Jbado a été soigné et évacué vers le centre de traitement médical le plus proche, où il est décédé, a déclaré le lieutenant-colonel Loren Bymer, porte-parole de l'armée.
Il en était à son troisième déploiement en Afghanistan après son enrôlement dans l'armée en 2012.
"Le sergent Jbado était un humble professionnel qui a placé la mission en premier, a vécu le credo du garde forestier et nous manquera énormément", a déclaré le lieutenant-colonel Rob McChrystal, commandant du 2e bataillon du 75e régiment de rangers.
Dimanche, alors que la nouvelle de la mort de Jbado se propageait à Leavenworth, anciens enseignants et amis ont rappelé un jeune homme tranquille qui appréciait la discipline et les expériences offertes par l'armée, a rapporté le Seattle Times.
Ils ont dit que tout le monde semblait avoir un lien avec le soldat dans la ville du comté de Chelan, qui compte environ 2 000 personnes.
"Vous entendez des histoires d'enfants qui s'enrôlent et partent à la guerre, puis perdent la vie, mais c'est une petite ville qui nous touche vraiment", a déclaré Elia Ala'ilima-Daley, directrice du lycée Cascade, où Jbado a obtenu son diplôme. en 2012. "Tout le monde connaît tout le monde."
Andrea Brixey, enseignante dans la Cascade High, a invité Jbado à suivre un cours d'anglais de septième année et a déclaré qu'il aimait défier les normes, mais jamais de manière irrespectueuse. Elle en a eu un premier aperçu lorsque, le premier jour d'école, il l'a appelée "Andrea" au lieu de "Mme Brixey".
"Il n'était pas occupé à être le meneur et à essayer de me tourmenter. C'est comme ça qu'il a roulé", a déclaré Brixey. "Il n'a jamais été perturbateur ni difficile, mais il a toujours mis en doute l'autorité à tous les niveaux. Mais une fois qu'il a eu les réponses, il était le meilleur enfant de votre équipe."
Jbado s'est enrôlé en août 2012, environ trois mois après le baccalauréat. Brixey a dit qu'il lui avait dit que cela semblait être l'option la plus intelligente avec le plus d'avantages.
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Le secrétaire à l'Intérieur, Ryan Zinke, répond aux questions après une tournée de tir qui a ravagé Paradise, en Californie.
Les coûts liés à un incendie mortel dans le nord de la Californie atteindront probablement des milliards, a déclaré lundi le secrétaire américain à l'Intérieur, Ryan Zinke, alors qu'il rentrait dans la ville de Paradise, affirmant qu'il n'avait jamais été témoin de telles dévastations.
"Il y a beaucoup de choses sur lesquelles je préférerais dépenser cet argent fédéral plutôt que de réparer les dégâts causés par des objets détruits", a-t-il déclaré. Zinke nodded to other public services, such as improving visitor experiences at Yosemite National Park or thinning forests as options for the money.
No additional remains were found Monday, but the wildfire's death toll rose to 88 after investigators determined that three separate sets of human remains contained remains from more than one person.
Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said 203 names remain on the list of those unaccounted for after the Camp Fire swept through the rural area 140 miles north of San Francisco. He released the names of 16 people who died in the blaze, ranging in age from 58 to 95.
The pace of newly discovered remains has slowed in recent days, and Honea said searchers are making "good progress" as they methodically sweep through any property where people may have died.
"The remains that we are now recovering are now remains that were almost completely consumed by the fire," he said. Anthropologists are sifting through bone fragments to help coroners identify the remains, he said.
Though he has declined to characterize how much of the area has been searched, Honea said that highly populated areas and places that were identified as possibly having deceased people have been fully searched and search teams are now spreading out into less dense areas of devastation.
The U.S. government has distributed more than $20 million in badistance for people displaced by the catastrophic wildfire in Northern California, a Federal Emergency Management Agency official said Monday as hundreds of searchers kept looking for more human remains.
The mbadive wildfire that destroyed nearly 14,000 homes in the town of Paradise and surrounding communities was fully contained over the weekend after igniting more than two weeks ago.
FEMA spokesman Frank Mansell told The Associated Press that $15.5 million has been spent on housing badistance, including vouchers for hotel rooms. During an interview in the city of Chico, he said disaster response is in an early phase but many people will eventually get longer-term housing in trailers or apartments.
FEMA also has distributed $5 million to help with other needs, including funeral expenses, he said.
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Minutes after touching down on Mars, NASA's InSight spacecraft sent back a "nice and dirty" snapshot of its new digs. Yet the dust-stained image looked like a work of art for scientists.
The photo revealed a mostly smooth, sandy terrain around the probe with only one large visible rock.
"I'm really very happy that it seems like we have an incredibly safe and boring landing place," said project manager Tom Hoffman after Monday's touchdown. "That's exactly what we were looking for."
A better picture came hours later and we expect more in the coming days, after the dust covers will be detached from the cameras of the Lander.
The probe arrived on Mars after a perilous and supersonic dive in its red sky that took only six minutes.
"Touchdown confirmed!" un contrôleur de vol a appelé juste avant 15 heures EST, setting off jubilation among scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who had waited in white-knuckle suspense for word to reach across 100 million miles of space.
It was the eighth successful NASA landing on Mars since the 1976 Viking probes, and the first in six years. The NASA Curiosity robot, arrived in 2012, is still moving on Mars.
Because of the distance between Earth and Mars, it took eight minutes for confirmation to arrive, relayed by a pair of tiny satellites that had been trailing InSight throughout the six-month, 300-million-mile journey.
"Flawless," said Rob Manning, chief engineer of JPL. "Sometimes things work in your favor."
InSight, a $1 billion international project, includes a German mechanical mole that will burrow down 16 feet to measure Mars' internal heat. The lander also has a French seismometer to measure earthquakes, if they exist in our smaller and geologically quieter neighbor. Another experiment will calculate the oscillation of Mars to reveal the composition of the planet's nucleus.
Late Monday, NASA announced that the vital solar panels of the spacecraft were open and recharging its batteries.
Over the next few "sols" — or Martian days of 24 hours, 39 1/2 minutes — flight controllers will badess the health of InSight's all-important robot arm and its science instruments. It will take months to configure and adjust the instruments, and senior scientist, Bruce Banerdt, said he was not expecting to receive a solid data stream by the end of next spring.
Banerdt said that the first snapshot of InSight on the surface was the first scientific element, although "nice and dirty". He said that the image would be cleaned up and the black spots would disappear. This picture came from a low camera on the undercarriage. Late Monday, NASA released a sharp photo taken by a top camera showing some of the lander and landscape.
The 800-pound InSight is stationary and will operate from the same spot for the next two years, the duration of a Martian year.
"In the months and years to come, history books will be rewritten on the inside of March," said JPL director Michael Watkins.
By examining and mapping inside Mars, scientists hope to understand why the rocky planets of our solar system have proved so different and why Earth has become a refuge for life.
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The Kerch bridge span opens for the pbadage of ships entrance, near in Kerch, Crimea, Monday, Nov. 26, 2018.
The Kremlin warned Tuesday that Ukraine's declaration of martial law over Russia's seizure of three Ukrainian ships might trigger a flare-up in hostilities in eastern Ukraine, while Kyiv blamed Russia for parading captured Ukrainian seamen on television.
Russia and Ukraine have blamed each other for Sunday's confrontation in the Kerch Strait, which links the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. The clash has raised the spectre of renewing a full-blown conflict in eastern Ukraine and saw Russia strongly criticized at the United Nations by the United States and its allies.
The Ukrainian parliament on Monday adopted a motion by the president to impose martial law for 30 days. That is something Ukraine avoided doing even when Russia annexed its nearby Crimean peninsula in 2014 or sent in clandestine troops and weapons to insurgents in war-torn eastern Ukraine.
On Sunday near Crimea, Russian border guards rammed into and opened fire on three Ukrainian navy vessels travelling from the Black Sea toward a Ukrainian port. The Russians seized the ships and their crews.
Ukraine considers the 24 captured men to be prisoners of war and says some have been seriously injured, while Russia says they are individuals who have violated its border.
The Kremlin reacted strongly to Ukraine's declaration of martial law, with Dmitry Peskov, Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman, telling reporters Tuesday that it might trigger a flare-up in hostilities in eastern Ukraine.
Ukrainian troops have been fighting Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine since 2014, a conflict that has left over 10,000 dead, but fighting has eased since a truce in 2015.
The martial law formally went into effect on Monday in several parts of Ukraine, including areas bordering territory now held by the separatists.
The Russian intelligence agency FSB claimed the ships had Ukrainian SBU intelligence agents onboard with a mission to mount what they called "provocation" in the Kerch Strait.
The strait is spanned by a new bridge that Russia completed this year — the only land link from the Russian mainland to the annexed peninsula of Crimea.
The SBU on Tuesday confirmed it had officers on the ships but denied any nefarious intentions, saying they were simply fulfilling counterintelligence operations for the Ukrainian navy.
The SBU also demanded that Russia stop using "psychological and physical pressure" on the Ukrainians — an apparent reference to interviews of the crewmembers that Russia released late Monday. The video broadcast by Russian state television showed three separate interviews with Ukrainian seamen, all of whom agreed with Russian claims that they violated its border.
It was not immediately possible to ascertain if the men were talking under duress or had been subject to violence. One of them was clearly reading from a script prepared for them.
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